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| Open PRs | 12 | 47 |
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| Contributors | 18 | 10 |
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Those numbers are based on the GitHub current statistics. Another
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comparison is the [openhub dashboard](https://www.openhub.net/p/_compare?project_0=Fabric&project_1=mitogen&project_2=pyinvoke) comparing Fabric, Mitogen and
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pyinvoke (the Fabric backend). It should be noted that:
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* all three projects have "decreasing" activity
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* the code size is in a similar range: when added together, Fabric
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and invoke are about 26k SLOC, while mitogen is 36k SLOC. but this
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does show that mitogen is more complex than Fabric
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* there has been more activity in mitogen in the past 12 months
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* but more contributors in Fabric (pyinvoke, specifically) over time
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The Fabric author also posted a [request for help](http://bitprophet.org/blog/2020/07/02/help-wanted/) with his
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projects, which doesn't bid well for the project in the long term. A
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few people offered help, but so far no major change has happened in
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the issue queue (lots of duplicates and trivial PRs remain open).
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On the other hand, the Mitogen author seems to have moved onto other
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things. He hasn't committed to the project [in over a year](https://github.com/dw/mitogen/commit/91f74a04acbc0ebeae939132bfdef0b6b3817e97),
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shortly after [announcing](https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2019-10-28-operon.html) a "private-source" (GPL, but no public
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code release) rewrite of the Ansible engine, called [Operon](https://networkgenomics.com/operon/). So
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it's [unclear what the fate of mitogen will be](https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/751). |